massive crash....

[Squish]

yep it happened to me...i was installing Windows 7 and it happened.....it would only boot in safe mode and the only option it would give me to a complete restore to the factory settings.....i did save a bunch of stuff to an external hard drive, but lost all of my email, and office products....let the rebuild begin.....:badmood:

[Dippsy]

:doh:

[Big Cheese]

Sucks. Just sayin.

[Bofinn]

I would never ever do an upgrade like that without "imaging" my current hard drive.


www.acronis.com (http://www.acronis.com)

True Image for home. It's cheap, and saves you hours of reinstalling everything!

[Bluetoys]

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[Geezer-Glide]

Mac.
End of troubles.

['05Train]

Mac.
End of troubles.

Word. Best thing I ever did for my online sanity.

[Squish]

if Mac is the answer who here is gonna float me the cash to get one.....

[Mrs. Gunworks]

I would never ever do an upgrade like that without "imaging" my current hard drive.


www.acronis.com (http://www.acronis.com)

True Image for home. It's cheap, and saves you hours of reinstalling everything!

Thanks Bofinn. Our PC is acting up lately too and I've been offline for 2 days. I'll let Larry look into this, because we're ready to give our PC the boot soon.

[BillyB]

Know this isn't helping much now but the only way I ever use an OS from Microsoft that has been on the market less than a year is to buy a new computer with it installed from the factory. That way you know all of the components and drivers are all working as they should be out of the box and if not, you have a warranty or return window.

To Bofinn's point, I have one of those Seagate 1.5TB external USB drives that makes a full backup of all my personal files every night. I've never had good luck restoring an image of a complete OS but if you do a reformat and fresh install and then restore your personal files, all is well.

[Bluetoys]

I was thinking that if a person was to partition part of the drive to put just the OS and have a partition only for the user changed programs, it would be easy to return the system to brand new without losing anything. You could have an area for all the other stuff like documents, media, and all...

how hard would that be to set up? Would it be a great benefit, or would it slow the system down?

[The Batman]

I was thinking that if a person was to partition part of the drive to put just the OS and have a partition only for the user changed programs, it would be easy to return the system to brand new without losing anything. You could have an area for all the other stuff like documents, media, and all...

how hard would that be to set up? Would it be a great benefit, or would it slow the system down?Fairly common practice. I have been doing this for about 15 years now. Virus' and OS corruption don't worry me a bit. I still do a full backup every night to guard against a full HDD crash though. And with the method of backup that MS switched to since Vista, you can put a blank HDD in your machine, put your OS DVD in and boot to it, tell it you want to restore, and it will repartition your drive the way you had it and put you right back to where you were at the time of your last backup. It has definately improved a ton over the previous Windows backup they had in earlier versions.

[Dippsy]

I just let angela spill wine in the laptop, and then I pound on the keyboard to keees stick and stuff, then I bitch when I lose all my data, its much more fun. This dang thing is still kicking so I can't justify buying a new one just yet.

I thought of upgrading to 7 but for all the reasons billyby said, I would just buy a computer with the recent os, or a mac.

[Bofinn]

I was thinking that if a person was to partition part of the drive to put just the OS and have a partition only for the user changed programs, it would be easy to return the system to brand new without losing anything. You could have an area for all the other stuff like documents, media, and all...

how hard would that be to set up? Would it be a great benefit, or would it slow the system down?
That's what I do. It only saves you time when Windows gets corrupt, not if your hard drive fails...

[Uesque]

I have to do that upgrade in the next few days. Right now I'm backing everything up. I'd rather risk the upgrade than live with Vista any longer.

[YankeeBob]

I must be lucky. I haven't had but one problem with Vista. My user profile became corrupted and I had to make another.